Crypto Trading Simulator How to Mine Guide

Mining is a second job with physics

Early Access launch notes list mining as a live system: buy a rig, fill it with GPUs, watch room temperature climb, and pay the electricity that follows. Preview posts also stress thermal management—hot rooms crush efficiency and spike thirst—so cooling gear (fans, air conditioning) becomes part of the economy, not decoration.

This guide shows how to grow mining without bankrupting the life-sim layer covered in How to Survive Bills.

Core loop

1. Buy or expand a mining rig
2. Install GPUs
3. Monitor heat and power
4. Add cooling before the next GPU wave
5. Compare mining income against electricity and opportunity cost (cash that could trade or pay rent)

If mining income looks “too low,” remember Patch 0.1.1 fixed a bug where a fee was counted twice. Re-baseline payouts after that hotfix before rewriting your entire plan.

Heat, thirst, and efficiency

Hot rooms are not flavor text. Efficiency drops and your character’s thirst rises, which means more food/drink spend and more distraction during trades. Practical rules:

• Never double GPU count without checking temperature
• Budget cooling in the same shopping trip as new GPUs
• If thirst spikes mid-session, fix environment before opening margin

Office layout choices also matter—see Office Upgrades and Upgrade Priority.

Power bills versus trading edge

Mining converts future upside into a fixed-ish power burn. During quiet accumulation (Market Cycles and Whales), a modest farm can stabilize cash. During fee spikes or losing trading weeks, an oversized farm accelerates insolvency.

Run the numbers in the Bill Budget Planner with power included. If the floor fails, sell the fantasy GPU and keep the lights on.

Sequencing with staking and margin

• Stake only coins you will not need for bills or cooling purchases
• Unlock Margin Trading only after mining heat is stable—do not stack new leverage on a sweating room
• Keep a cash sleeve even if mining “usually” covers power

Expansion tiers (player heuristic)

S-tier early mining

Small rig, one careful GPU step, cooling ready, journaled power cost.

A-tier growth

Add GPUs only after a profitable trading week and a green bill floor.

C-tier traps

Max GPUs on day two, ignore heat, fund rigs with loan money, assume bots will bail you out later.

Re-test after patches

When Steam notes mention mining, economy, or hunger:

1. Record one payout window
2. Record power drain
3. Save/load and confirm thirst/hunger persistence (0.1.1 fixed resets)
4. Update Patch Notes habits

Related reading

• Getting Started
• Risk and Security
• Early Access Roadmap for deeper hardware still coming

Mining should feel like a calibrated machine, not a panic purchase after a lucky candle. Cool the room, pay the grid, then scale.

Loan traps around mining

Bank loans can look like free GPUs. They are not. Interest stacks on top of electricity. If you need a loan to cool a farm you already overbuilt, sell GPUs first. Debt-funded heat is how “passive income” becomes an active crisis—especially during distribution phases described in Market Cycles and Whales.

Mining journal template

Each expansion night, write: GPU count, room temperature feel, cooling gear owned, power bill estimate, mining income sample, and whether the Bill Budget Planner floor stayed green. Without that journal, you will misremember “mining always paid for itself.”

When to pause mining growth

Pause if thirst spikes mid-trade, if power costs exceed last week’s trading edge, if you are about to unlock margin, or if a patch just changed fee math. Re-read Patch Notes and re-baseline. Patience is a mining skill too.